Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'@real.lemmy.fanEnglish · 11 months agoFirefox user loses 7,470 opened tabs saved over two years after they can’t restore browsing sessionlockwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square147linkfedilinkarrow-up1257arrow-down120file-textcross-posted to: offbeat@lemmy.ca
arrow-up1237arrow-down1external-linkFirefox user loses 7,470 opened tabs saved over two years after they can’t restore browsing sessionlockwww.tomshardware.comSphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'@real.lemmy.fanEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square147linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: offbeat@lemmy.ca
minus-squareAmbiguousPropslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoAt that point, just use archivebox instead.
minus-squareAmbiguousPropslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down3·11 months agoTrue, but my understanding is that she wanted to save the pages how they were when she found them.
minus-squareshoki@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·11 months agofirefox just remembers the url, or not? when my system crashes and firefox recovers my tabs it needs to load them all from their respective servers first, so it seems like it’s not “saving” the page on exit
minus-squareAmbiguousPropslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoYeah, I’m talking about archivebox, not necessarily Firefox alone.
minus-squarebrbposting@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoSelf-hosted Archive.org? Neat
At that point, just use archivebox instead.
Or maybe her browser history
True, but my understanding is that she wanted to save the pages how they were when she found them.
firefox just remembers the url, or not? when my system crashes and firefox recovers my tabs it needs to load them all from their respective servers first, so it seems like it’s not “saving” the page on exit
Yeah, I’m talking about archivebox, not necessarily Firefox alone.
Self-hosted Archive.org? Neat